Any golfers here? I think I'll go for a hit today
FORE!!!

Love golf, one of my favorite games.

My Grandfather, who was quite a good golfer used to call it "a good walk spoiled"

I can usually get around in under 100


But then The second nine it goes to shite.

I get my moneys worth, I recon I have seen parts of a golf course that have never been sen before.

But seriously, its a great game, and one which no one ever masters.

Golfguy2018 wrote on Nov 30^th, 2018 at 6:46am:


My regular golf partner went to work overseas a couple of years ago, I find it difficult to play golf with others because I can't abide cheats.
If you hit 4, write 4.

Funny story
My uncle was a terrible cheat, a treasure of a man, but a terrible cheat.
Anyhoo, his son in law was a stickler for the rules, and was a real pain.
So when the three of us played, it was nothing but arguments and insults.

One day, it started raining, I'm a fair weather player and wanted to quit, but my uncle and my brother in law wanted to continue.
On the 14th hole there is a water trap, just before the green.
It's not a particularly hard shot,  iron , lop it over the trap and onto the green.

Well the uncle took aim and had a swing, but the club slipped in his hand and flew majestically into a pine tree to one side, the ball, into the trap.
Brother in law started laughing
Uncle grabbed another iron and threw it at his treed iron in an attempt to knock it down
Two irons in tree.
Brother in law laughing so hard he falls over
Uncle decides to climb tree
I talk the 70 year old out of it and climb it myself, shake the tree, both irons fall down.

Uncle walks around water trap and "finds" his ball on the other side.
Brother in law goes ape, I crack up, other golfers tell us to putt out.
Brother in law can't put he is so anger, 5 shots later he picks up ball and calls it quits
Uncle takes 4 and writes 3 total, good par.
I putt 3 and write , bogie

I crack up all the way home while uncle and brother in law argue.

They really are fun to play golf with.

Isn't Golf that game that was invented just so people could have board meetings and do business deals... outdoors?

I have played a bit of golf in my time. Best for nine was 42 and best for 18 was 85.

I played in a business golf day one day and had a terrible round of 126. Next day was my first entry in an event of the club I was a member of. I decided to just play down the middle instead of trying to hit the ball out of sight and after 4 holes I was 1 under par after birdying the first hole and par for the next three. The game fell apart a bit after that but I still got an 85 which was 6 strokes better than I had ever played before and my handicap of 26 gave me a win in the stableford event which was an annual honor board event.

My good form held up for one day. I got a 42 for nine the next day and never got under 90 again except for another 42 for nine two years later on a course in the UK with hired clubs.

My name is now painted in gold letters on the honor board at a golf club after winning that Stableford event.

I have also had a hole in one with a three wood on a very long par three on a course in Perth and there were two witnesses.

I haven't played on a course for about 8 years. Stopped going to driving range four years ago.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2018 at 7:23pm:



Hi Walter Mitty,
I would consider all that to be a minor sporting achievement. 

Valkie wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2018 at 7:43pm:



200?

You must be the world's worst golfer. 

Agnes wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2018 at 8:43pm:


Put put?